McDonalds?

Even when I ate meat, McDonalds wasn't a favourite. I preferred Burger King. You know what I do like about McDonalds though? Grimace. I love that guy!

An Egg McMuffin is a single fresh egg, an English muffin, a piece of ham, and a slice of cheese. What on earth could be wrong with that?

Every now and then you just need to give into your cravings. You're doing it the smart way though: planning it out, thinking it through, and making sure it will fit into your diet.

Go for it. Just don't make it a regular habit and you'll be fine.

NO. Never. The service is generally horrible. The food itself is mediocre at best. If you want two patties, mustard only, goood luck. You'll get it with cheese, send it back, get it without the cheese but with ketchup ( which I absolutwely detest), send it back again and get another wrong order, until you tell them " I want two patties on a bun and I'll add my own mustard. No plastic cheese, lettuce, cardboard tomato slice, or any nasty condiments. Just bun and two patties", and then MAYBE they won't screw it up. I once had to send my order ( exceedingly simple, right? Two patties on a bun, nothing else?) THREE TIMES before those morons got it right. If you want a burger ten minutes before the "breakfast" menu goes off, you can't get it. No burger although they are right there, not until the appointed time to switch from breakfast to lunch. These incidents actually happened to me. I've a lifelong boycott with the place.
KFC, on the other hand, best fried chicken ever, and I love fried chicken. I've only had it once since starting this program, and that was one piece. (sigh...)

Eating at McDonald's?

Apparently, some people have no interest in being "elite".

Besides, everyone knows that fast food calories are a ticking time-bomb of death. I hope that burger is worth the inevitable 5-8+ years you're cutting off of your life.

I would like to know where your statistics come from.. Not going to condone eating McDonalds.. I know its crap food.. but spewing bad statistics is just as bad.. One burger is not going to make you die 5-8 years earlier..

As an aside, I DO believe that the consumption of fast food has contributed more to the fattening of America than any other foods available to us. I'm a kid of the 70s, and enjoy those TV shows that show clips of people from the 70s, before the "Age of the Mega Golden Arches Monopoly" and we were far, far thinner and healthier than we are now.

Actually the golden age was during the 50s and 60s, by the 70s the golden age of the burger had begun to wane under numerous pressures. Food police demonized it. McDonald's is the largest buyer of beef and has power over the cattle industry, even Schlosser says " the enormous buying power of the fast food giants has given them access to the cleanest ground beef."

Penn State's studies show that youngsters fed large lunches and then offered "junk" food ate a great deal of of that food, while others ate none. What predicted how much they consumed? Whether their parents forbid high-fat, high-sugar foods in their regular diet. Those studies find that when children are told that a food is bad, they assume it must taste good and develop an appetite for it.

Just copying my reply from last month. and the month before. and before...

someone said this -

As an aside, I DO believe that the consumption of fast food has contributed more to the fattening of America than any other foods available to us. I'm a kid of the 70s, and enjoy those TV shows that show clips of people from the 70s, before the "Age of the Mega Golden Arches Monopoly" and we were far, far thinner and healthier than we are now.

Actually the golden age was during the 50s and 60s, by the 70s the golden age of the burger had begun to wane under numerous pressures. Food police demonized it. McDonald's is the largest buyer of beef and has power over the cattle industry, even Schlosser says " the enormous buying power of the fast food giants has given them access to the cleanest ground beef."

Penn State's studies show that youngsters fed large lunches and then offered "junk" food ate a great deal of of that food, while others ate none. What predicted how much they consumed? Whether their parents forbid high-fat, high-sugar foods in their regular diet. Those studies find that when children are told that a food is bad, they assume it must taste good and develop an appetite for it.

Just copying my reply from last month. and the month before. and before...

someone said this -

As an aside, I DO believe that the consumption of fast food has contributed more to the fattening of America than any other foods available to us. I'm a kid of the 70s, and enjoy those TV shows that show clips of people from the 70s, before the "Age of the Mega Golden Arches Monopoly" and we were far, far thinner and healthier than we are now.

Actually the golden age was during the 50s and 60s, by the 70s the golden age of the burger had begun to wane under numerous pressures. Food police demonized it. McDonald's is the largest buyer of beef and has power over the cattle industry, even Schlosser says " the enormous buying power of the fast food giants has given them access to the cleanest ground beef."

Penn State's studies show that youngsters fed large lunches and then offered "junk" food ate a great deal of of that food, while others ate none. What predicted how much they consumed? Whether their parents forbid high-fat, high-sugar foods in their regular diet. Those studies find that when children are told that a food is bad, they assume it must taste good and develop an appetite for it.

...yeah... that all sounds like BS.

buying power = best product? hell no. buying power = cheapest adequate product that they can spin off to make even more profit... how do you think they got all that buying power to BEGIN with? They're not going to suddenly buy high quality meat and gouge their own profits. lol

Wrong. You can read his book, Fast Food Nation, or read chapter 15 in Paradox of Plenty. Or take a course in business 101.
What is it you're elite in?